| If there were no travel restrictions, and Cuba let US parents send their children to a bording school there, I bet they'd be more than willing to pay top dollar for it.
And as for medical education, there is nowhere in the world better for teaching doctors. If you did as much in Cuba as you could, then specialised in whatever field in the US or Europe (Cuba can't get the equipment for the most specialisation possible), you'd be a brilliant doctor.
As for flagging US GDP up as a comparison, its not really accurate. I mean, lets pick another capitalist country, like Chad, which is $1 100. Or maybe Angola? $1 600. Hey, best I've found yet, Burundi, at $600. These arn't liberal democracies, but they are capitalist.
And you should really be comparing Cuba before and after the revolution. They now have 97 % literacy (better than the US), 7.15/1000 infant mortality, life expectancy at 76. I doubt Batista even cared about reaching these levels.
Whats the US in these stakes? Literacy-97% Infant Mortality-6.75/1000, life expectancy-74.
Hey, so a beleaguered, last standing socialist country is comparable to the US, and the US is the richest capitalist nation.
And I don't see Cuba raping poor nations of natural resources like the US is. Hell its exporting doctors to them free of charge, more doctors than the UN has since its inception.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |